William Bouguereau, 1872 - The Proposal - fine art print

What does the curator team of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art say about this 19th century artwork from the painter William Bouguereau? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely sixteenth-century German costumes and setting, led writers to associate this painting with the tragic story of Faust and Marguerite. The seduction of the innocent heroine by the wicked Faust was a popular pictorial subject in the nineteenth century, inspired by Goethe’s dramatic poem and its operatic staging by Charles Gounod. Regardless of the lovers’ identities, the lushly painted, romantic scene would have appealed to Bouguereau’s well-heeled clientele.

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• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): A glossy print on acrylic glass, often referred to as a an art print on plexiglass, will turn the original work of art into beautiful décor and offers a great alternative to aluminium or canvas fine art prints. The artwork is custom-made with modern UV direct print machines. The image effect of this are deep and rich colors. The real glass coating protects your selected fine art print against light and heat for up to six decades.
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• The canvas print: The canvas print, which shall not be mistaken with a canvas painting, is a digital replica printed on a cotton canvas fabric. Additionally, a canvas generates a nice and warm look. Canvas Prints have the advantage of being relatively low in weight. That means, it is quite simple to hang up your Canvas print without the support of extra wall-mounts. Therefore, canvas prints are suited for any type of wall.

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The modern art artwork named "The Proposal" was painted by William Bouguereau in 1872. The more than 140 year old original measures the size of 64 3/8 x 44 in (163,5 x 111,8 cm) and was made with the technique oil on canvas. Nowadays, the artpiece forms part of the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Elliot L. Kamen, in memory of her father, Bernard R. Armour, 1960 (license: public domain). : Gift of Mrs. Elliot L. Kamen, in memory of her father, Bernard R. Armour, 1960. The alignment is portrait with a ratio of 2 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% shorter than the width.

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